This new nine-month programme has been designed for graduates of Psychosynthesis Coaching Limited’s CPLC and HCP programmes who want to take their learning and development as depth coaches further. We will also consider applications from other accredited coaches (e.g. EMCC Senior Practitioner, ICF PCC, AC PEC or APECS Master Executive Coach), who have relevant previous training and experience, as well as psychosynthesis trained counsellors and therapists who are practising coaches. This first programme takes place in-person in London, starting October 2025.

The programme consists of two parts; the first gives you the broad psychological foundations for depth coaching; the second takes you on a personal and professional psychosynthesis journey of depth and discovery.

Structure of the Programme

Part One: Essential Psychology for Depth Coaches

4 x two-day weekend seminars, supported by small group reflection sessions, webinars and online materials

Part One has been developed by Aubyn Howard in partnership with George Warren and The Edge of Coaching and Bonny Tydeman and Soulful Leadership.

1. The essential concepts of prepersonal psychology for depth coaches supporting leaders in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) world
2. Personal and humanistic psychology – overview of classical and new approaches and application of these in coaching
3. Transpersonal psychology and the superconscious, working with nature and creative expression
4. Emergent psychology for engaging with the collective psyche and the intersection with the individual psyche.

Part Two: Going to Depth with Psychosynthesis Psychology

5 x two-day weekend seminars, supported by small group reflection sessions, webinars and online materials. The broad scope of these are:

1. The Self and personality – sacred wound and the inner child; disidentification, subpersonalities and the I-Self
2. The Will – psychological functions and the will; aspects, qualities, levels and stages of the Act of Will; the nature of free will
3. The Soul’s journey – the journey of the soul, the nature of suffering, psychological disturbance, crisis and breakdown
4. Spiritual emergence, awakening and crisis – crises of meaning and duality, Assagioli’s four stages of awakening, psychological mountain climbing and transpersonal inspiration
5. Synthesis and polarity – interplay of polarity and opposites; inner and outer, individual and collective; concrete and abstract mind; the process of synthesis at different levels; synthesis for leadership in a VUCA world.

Context

Part One provides a breadth perspective of essential psychology for the depth coach.  Interactive seminars are mixed with experiential exercises and short coaching practice sessions, alongside reflection on your own self-development, coaching space and professional practice. We engage in the spirit of inquiry, variously voicing the perspectives of coach, psychologist or leader within the context of our VUCA world. We use Roberto Assagioli’s model of the psyche as our map of the territory or framework for the four weekends.  We introduce core concepts of psychosynthesis, which are further explored in Part Two.

Part Two takes you on a newly designed personal and professional journey into psychosynthesis psychology, over five weekend workshops. The aim is to both enable participants to experience Assagioli’s core concepts of psychosynthesis and to bring this psychospiritual psychology into relationship with the world we engage with today as practitioners, coaches and leaders. Each weekend workshop is facilitated by a different experienced psychosynthesis trainer alongside Aubyn Howard and Bonny Tydeman, as guides of the overall journey.

A full prospectus for this programme is now available, please go to our contact page to download.

If you would like to apply to attend, please complete the form below.

Details of the 2025-2026 programme

Part One: Essential Psychology for Depth Coaches: Inperson London, CIEE Russell Square, London: 11-12 October 2025, 15-16 November, 13-14 December, 17-18 January 2026; Saturdays 09:00 – 17:00, Sundays 09:00 – 16:00.

Part Two: Going to Depth with Psychosynthesis Psychology: Inperson London, CIEE Russell Square, London: 14-15 February 2026, 14-15 March, 11-12 April, 9-10 May, 6-7 June; Saturdays 09:00 – 17:00, Sundays 09:00 – 16:00.

Course fees

Diploma in Depth Coaching programme fee: £3800 + VAT.  Early bird (booking by 30 June 2025): £3600 + VAT.

The programme is limited to 18 participants. Places are secured with a deposit of £500+VAT.  Instalment payments for the balance can be spread over the duration of the programme.

Application Form for The Diploma in Depth Coaching 

Please note, a zoom conversation with the Programme Director will be required by applicants who have not previously studied with PCL before acceptance.